Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.
Alan J. Perlis
For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.
Alan J. Perlis
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden, basketball coach
It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code.
Anonymous
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely
Don't fix it if it ain't broke presupposes that you can't improve something that works reasonably well already. If the world's inventors had believed this, we'd still be driving Model A Fords and using outhouses.
H. W. Kenton
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis